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Hurricane Sandy - 6 months later

The clean-up continues on the Jersey shore six months after the area was devastated by Hurricane Sandy

Thu 2 May 2013

A destroyed home sits along the beach in the Bell Harbor neighborhood which was heavily damaged in Hurricane Sandy. Six months to the day after the devastating storm ravaged parts of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, many communities are still struggling. The super-storm killed dozens and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

New York City Parks Department employee Lunetta Antoni cleans up a public space near the Rockaway boardwalk, which was heavily damaged in Hurricane Sandy. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

A charred tree is viewed in front of burned and damaged homes in Breezy Point, which was heavily damaged in Hurricane Sandy. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Sand is cleaned and prepared for the summer season on a beach in the Bell Harbor neighborhood. Photograph Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Residents walk through the Breezy Point neighborhood which was left devastated by Hurricane Sandy in the New York borough of Queens last November. Sewage enough to fill 17,000 Olympic-sized pools flowed into public waterways and roadways in the months after Superstorm Sandy laid waste to the East Coast, researchers have said. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters

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Josephine Scarnato, a board member at her co-op, which was damaged during Hurricane Sandy. Since Hurricane Sandy, thousands of homeowners have been startled to discover that co-ops are largely barred from federal disaster assistance. Photograph: Uli Seit/The New York Times

Stephen Elbaz, of Esquire Management, reveals mold behind vinyl wall paper in a co-op building, which was damaged during Hurricane Sandy. Photograph: Uli Seit/The New York Times

People walk by the remaining pilings of the of the Rockaway boardwalk. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Streets damaged during Hurricane Sandy in Ortley Beach, New Jersey. Superstorm Sandy shifted the sands of the New Jersey shore's summer rental landscape, where some resort towns are suffering lasting effects of the barrage and others are, as they say, cleaning up. Photograph: Tim Larsen/Governor's Office/Reuters

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Members of the Army Corps of Engineers remove debris left behind after Hurricane Sandy at a Staten Island landfill in New York. Photograph: Robert Stolarik/The New York Times

Maya Lin, an architect and artist, works on her "Pin River ? Hudson" piece at her studio in New York. After Hurricane Sandy, Lin decided her new show at Pace Gallery would fix on the Manhattan borough of New York and its surrounding landscape, environmental history and waterways. Photograph: Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times

Aerial views shows the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the New Jersey coast taken during a search and rescue mission by 1-150 Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard. Photograph: Mark C. Olsen/US Air Force/Handout/Files/Reuters